Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefneris an American adult magazine publisher, businessman, and a well-known playboy. Hefner is a native of Chicago, Illinois and a former journalist for Esquire. Hefner is also a World War II veteran. He is best known for being the founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. A self-made multi-millionaire, he is now worth over $43 million, because of his success for creating the Playboy magazine. Hefner is also a political activist and philanthropist active in several causes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth9 April 1926
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.
I'm actually a very moral guy.
Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.
The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.
The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.
The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
My life is an open book. With illustrations.
I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.
I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.